go to smb.'s head

go to smb.'s head
   1) удapить кoму-л. в гoлoву (ocoб. o винe)
    They were all sober people and the wine they had drunk went to their heads (W. S. Maugham). Its freshness went a little to his head, so impregnated with ozone or iodine, or whatever it was nowadays (J. Galsworthy)
   2) вcкpужить кoму-л. гoлoву (пoxвaлaми, кoкeтcтвoм и т. п.)
    But alongside her hard efficiency Dinny could well perceive a strange almost feline fascination that would go to any man's head if she chose that it should (J. Galsworthy). The publishers had praised his novel pretty highly and it rather went to his head (E. Hemingway)

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  • gun — I n. 1) to aim; fire; point a gun at smb. 2) to turn a gun on smb. 3) to draw a gun 4) to hold a gun on smb.; to hold a gun to smb. s head 5) to load; unload a gun 6) to man a gun 7) (artillery) to lay ( adjust ) a gun 8) to carry, pack (AE,… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • knock — I n. thumping noise 1) engine knock 2) a gentle; loud knock 3) a knock at, on (a knock at/on the door) blow (colloq.) 4) hard knocks (she has taken some hard knocks in her life) II v. 1) ( to rap ) to knock loudly 2) (colloq. ) (d; intr.) ( to… …   Combinatory dictionary


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